Getting ready for the Mobile World Congress, the ‘show of smartphones’ – Rai News

The world’s largest manufacturers, the most important suppliers of infrastructure of all the latest gadgets: Barcelona returns to the world fair of the smartphone, which this year marks the beginning of a commercial battle between traditional and new Chinese player manufacturers. But you speak very well of IoT, cloud, virtual reality and security

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Celia Guimaraes Barcelona February 20, 2016 E ” the most great show of European technology “gets underway Monday 22 (with several previews from Sunday 21) the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​in a year that promises to be a battle between the world’s largest manufacturers of mobile phones. Thousands of journalists, bloggers and analysts will be in Barcelona to learn about the latest discoveries of large technology and communication companies like Samsung, LG and Huawei but also the gadgets of the small producers and the IT company strategies.

L ‘Chinese advanced
The MWC is essentially the show of smartphones, where companies come to present their best devices and newer. Journalists and specialized bloggers are all in agreement that the most anticipated products are the Samsung Galaxy S7 and the LG G5. But this year there will also be an emerging Chinese player, Xiaomi, which will present an event simultaneously in Beijing and Barcelona. Xiaomi is not yet known in Europe and the United States, but in Asia is one of the leading manufacturers and now seeks to conquer the European market. Xiaomi has carved out a market share among smartphone manufacturers always growing in recent years, from around 1% to 5.6% of the global market than now, according to data from the analyst firm IDC. In the same period, the share of global industry giant market, the South Korean Samsung has dropped from 32.2% to 21.4%.

Farewell sim card
> But the South Korean manufacturer is not watching, and has announced the first device in the world that, instead of the traditional sIM cards, uses a esim, a small chip already built into the device. It does not pass through a phone service provider, then, and allows you to change the operator with a click. The esim will be mounted on the smartwatch Gear S2, for sale in March.

The standard of esim
The GSMA – the association of mobile phone operators that organizes Mobile World Congress – has announced the specifications of esim for smartwatch, smartband and tablets. The esim of the market standard for smartphones, however, will arrive in June.

Many sim as the world’s population
According to data released by Ericsson on the occasion of the MWC, the rate of global mobile penetration has reached 100%. The number of active SIM cards, 7.3 billion is the same number of the global population. The number of subscriptions to the LTE network reached a billion, with 160 million new subscriptions only in the fourth quarter of 2015. The mobile data traffic grew by 65% ​​year over year, driven by video and social networks. In particular, over the next six years the data traffic generated from social networks will be 12 times higher than the traffic generated in the previous 6 years.